Network Engineer - Systematic Trading Firm | Up to £150K Base

A high-growth systematic trading firm is looking for a highly skilled Network Engineer to help scale and modernise their infrastructure. You’ll play a critical role in designing and implementing advanced networking solutions across LAN, WAN, Data Centre, Colo, Campus, and Cloud environments. Upcoming project work includes the likes of EVPN and VxLAN implementation in conjunction with a modernised architectural design, and also multiple international data centre builds. This hire will also be responsible for proactively finding opportunities for network automation, improving the likes of monitoring capabilities.

Company Highlights:

• Over £100bn AUM, trading a broad range of asset classes
• Software firm first - Massively data and tech driven, ML/AI is integrated into all of their trading strategies
• Significant investment in infrastructure to support large-scale software growth
• Massive on collaboration - encourage cross team interactions, flat structure with access to the founder and C level individuals
• Free daily lunch and snacks

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands-on network engineering experience with solid project execution examples
• Deep expertise in routing (OSPF, BGP, EVPN) and switching (preferably VxLAN/VLAN)
• Experience in multi-tenanted environments
• Preference for Arista; Cisco also considered
• CCIE or CCNP certified
• Cloud networking experience (ideally AWS or GCP)
• Monitoring/Orchestration tooling experience (LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, Prometheus, CVP, Elastic, Grafana)
• Scripting/Network automation experience
• Network diagnostic/performance tooling experience (netcat, tcptrace, wireshark, etc)
• Understanding of network security concepts: AAA (Radius/TACACS), device hardening, control plane protection
• Exposure to fast-paced industries — ideally trading, finance, or high-performance tech

If the described opportunity sounds of relevance to your profile and interests please apply and share your CV!